Bersier, a marketing coordinator for a Swiss hockey team, played billiards with friends. He did not see what caused it, he said, but within minutes the flames had spread across the room. But there was no fire around me.”Reaching a veranda at the top of the stairs, Bersier found himself in a melee of flailing and panicking people. Finally making it outside, “That’s when I saw my hands, the skin hanging off on all sides,” he said. I stank of burns.”Tributes and candles left in memorial to victims near Le Constellation, in the ski resort town of Crans-Montana, Switzerland, on January 2nd, 2026.

Source: The Irish Times January 03, 2026 14:45 UTC